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Rh and adherents, and restored them to their owners. And they resumed their former habits, and applied themselves to tillage; and those of them who had become weak, again grew strong, and thus the ground was cultivated and waxed fertile. And the farmers increased in substance, and the armies became powerful, and the growth of enmity ceased. And the King set himself earnestly to business, and his conduct was praised, and his kingdom was so well governed that after him his reign was known as—The happy days of him who extended bounty to all men, and over-shadowed them with justice.